Report: White House declined to comment on President Donald Trump's commission on college sports

There’s still little information about the commission that president Donald Trump plans to form a presidential commission looking into college sports. According to a recent article from CBS Sports, the White House has still yet to respond to a request for official comment on the matter.

Ross Dellenger of Yahoo! Sports previously reported that the commission will seek to explore the transfer portal and debate of college athlete employment in the age of NIL. It was said that the commission would seek to “deeply examine the unwieldy landscape of college sports.”

Still, it’s unclear exactly how it will do so or what it hopes to accomplish. American Football Coaches Association executive director Craig Bohl is a name that has been floated to join the commission and revealed he has been in contact with leaders about it but added that nothing is official.

“The only thing that I can say is that the AFCA, we’ve had significant conversations with, what I believe are the stakeholders in college football and our perspective and my perspective is that we listen to all the coaches and we certainly have some insight that I think is unique,” Bohl told CBS Sports. “But as far as the formulation of the commission, I’m not aware that anything has been set in stone. I’ve had dialogue, but there’s not been anybody from that commission to say, ‘Hey Craig, we want you on here.’ I’ve had a dialogue. I just don’t know where it’s all at.”

Former Alabama coach Nick Saban was reported to be serving as co-chair to Trump on the commission. This comes after the two met recently to discuss how the recent rise of NIL has impacted the parity of college sports.

However, Saban even admitted recently that he isn’t entirely sure the exact details on the commission. At this point, perhaps because it is still in its infancy, it doesn’t appear that many people are.

“To be honest with you, I don’t really know much about this commission,” Saban said Wednesday morning ahead of his annual appearance at the Regions Traditions Pro-Am in Birmingham, Alabama, according to BamaOnline. “I don’t really know what the commission will do. I think we know what needs to be done, I just think we need to figure out who’s got the will to do it.

“I learned one thing about coaching all these years: when you get into a subject like this that’s very complex, it’s probably good not to talk about it off the cuff. So I’ll find out more about it, and if there’s something I can do to help college football be better, I’ll always be committed to do that. I was committed to do that as a coach, to help players be more successful in life, and I’d continue to do that same thing now.”

Bohl was a college football coach for 40 years, most notably at Wyoming and North Dakota State. He was on Capitol Hill last month when he addressed members of the House Judiciary Committee at an NIL roundtable in April.

Bohl offered three key recommendations on agent regulation, standardization of contracts and urging congress to create a governing body to oversee NIL issues with coaches serving a formal role on such a body. One would imagine that those would be the same issues he would push hard to fix if part of the committee, and it seems a real possibility he could soon officially be on board with Donald Trump to find a solution that’s best for college sports.

“I know [President Trump] is a big college football fan,” Bohl said. “I do know he cares, and I do know that Coach Saban cares. I think it’s imperative that each lane, whether it’s a commissioner, whether it’s college presidents, whether it’s coaches or student athletes or some members of Congress, that everybody has an opportunity to engage and clarify and offer their perspective on a pathway forward.”